today bob melvin announced he will start rookie pitchers jarrod parker and tommy malone in games one and two with a combined 26-18 record this season. parker will be the first oakland as rookie pitcher to start the first game of a post- season. >> we have done it together and we kind of knew we had to pick the other guys off. we got brett back was a huge pickup and he went down bartolo's situation and, you know, mac going down. we kind of came together and, you know, we knew we had to pick up a good majority of the workload. we kind of have done it. >>> cardinals and braves, matt holliday back away forget about it 6th inning, 4-2 st. louis. but you know what? here's the game. 8th inning two on, one out, here's a pop-up. left field. and it's off. so instead of two on you think well the bases are loaded for the braves. trying to catch up. but no, no. the infield fly rule is called. and the batter is out and the cascade of -- whatever you want to call it from the stands -- came on down to the field stopped the game. braves end up losing 6-3 which upsets our prompter operator. cardinals